Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Congressional study finds White House manipulated climate science
Judge says California can regulate greenhouse gases from cars
Proposal for $600 million center to coordinate energy, climate research in California
Al Gore Nobel Prize speech
CBS asks candidates about global warming
U.S. prevails on climate draft, squelches targets
Canada tries to stop declaration on GHG reduction
Rich, poor countries at odds
Hard choices on climate can wait for next president: Bush aides
Poor hit hardest by climate change
Paying other nations to be green
It’s becoming increasingly recognized that today’s industrial agriculture will stop being viable once cheap abundant fossil fuel becomes a thing of the past. Less often recognized are adaptations already taking place that will allow more sustainable agricultural systems to take its place – but at a price.
Ominous Arctic melt worries experts
Climate change drying up mountains in Western US
Red Cross says global warming caused record disasters in 2007
High clouds show effects of climate change
Open a new highway – on the sea
Putting the brakes on drive-thrus
Sell your car, stay sane (car-sharing)
How big is your bicycle?
TIME: Is America the villain?
US told to ‘wake up’ over climate change
Bitter divisions at climate talks
EU uses Bush’s climate summit as leverage
Drawing on the combined wisdom of no less than seven of their reporters strung out around the earth, the New York Times boldly concluded that “The economies of many big oil-exporting countries are growing so fast that their need for energy within their borders is crimping how much they can sell abroad.”
Proponents of the House-passed energy bill have called it a “down payment” on a climate change strategy. But that “down payment” is now in jeopardy.
The pathos of Derrick Jensen
Monbiot: Need a reappraisal of who we are and what progress means
Jamais Cascio: Futurism and its discontents
America’s climate and energy future: What will we look like in 2050?
WSJ: A young tinkerer builds a windmill, electrifying a nation
CERA co-founder points to opportunities in green efforts
Airborne wind turbines
Big Oil lets sun set on renewables
Connecticut PO forum: To The Last Drop?
Jamaica:
Victims of record world oil prices?
Cheap oil is so yesterday
ODAC News
Bertrand Russell on savants, gardeners and happiness
Oxford word of the year: “Locavore”
If it’s fresh and local, is it always greener?
Eating + Ecology = Locavore
Eco-friendly kangaroo farts could help global warming
Growing food when the oil runs out
We are what we eat
